The website for the ESC/WOSC 2018 in Berlin is online. Please have a look at https://www.shogi2018.eu/.
It is also possible to register already.

ESC/WOSC 2018 in Berlin, July 26th to July 29th, ESC/WOSC 2019 in Bratislava (Aug 19, 2017)

The ESC/WOSC 2018 will be held in Berlin from July 26th to July 29th.
The venue will be the Japanese-German Center Berlin (http://www.jdzb.de).
More information and the tournament website will be available in a few weeks.

At the FESA meeting in Kiev it was decided that the ESC/WOSC 2019 will be held in Bratislava, Slovakia.

ESC/WOSC 2017 - Vincent Tanyan new European champion (Aug 11, 2017)

Kiev (Ukraine) was the venue for the European Shogi Championship/World Open Shogi Championship (ESC/WOSC) between August 3rd and August 6th.
This time there were 66 participants in the main tournament.
Professional guests were Yaoichi Ono (7-dan) and Madoka Kitao (ladies professional 2-dan).

This years ESC saw a Belarusian final between Vincent Tanyan and Sergey Korchitsky . 18 year old Vincent managed to secure his first European title.
The match for the third place showed a very long game between Thomas Leiter and Marco Dietmayer , which Thomas managed to win with Jishogi (28-26 points).

Shun Tokuni won the title in the WOSC with 8 wins out of 9 rounds,
2nd place went to Sergey Korchitsky with 7/9 and 3rd place to Thomas Leiter also 7/9.